Browsing College of Architecture, Art and Design (CAAD) by Issue Date
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Design standards for Muslim prayer facilities within public buildings
(Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), 2009)The construction boom in the Arabian Gulf region has resulted in an inflow of consultants from around the world. Most have little or no experience of the particular requirements of the residents of the region, who are ... -
Architectural Design Standards for Muslims Prayer Facilities in Airports
(WIT Press, 2010)Increasingly, airports around the world are becoming hubs for the coexistence of different cultures. Therefore, they need to include facilities that can accommodate, as far as possible, the needs of passengers from various ... -
Merging green infrastructure with the design of public open spaces: A brief literature review
(Universitätsverlag der Technischen Universität Berlin, 2011)The advent of new green infrastructure systems (decentralized, small-scaled facilities and spaces to produce energy, food, water, recycle wastewater, and dispose of organic waste based on renewable energy sources) offers ... -
Defining an Architectural Design Strategy for Energy Performance-A Systematic Approach for Students
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Managing the energy performance of a building should start from the pre-conceptual design phase. Architects at this phase need to analyze the nature of the site environment, the nature of the building, and the comfort ... -
Real Product Eye Tracking
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Shipping Complexity: Parametric Design for Remote Communities
(Springer, 2013)This paper presents a system for design and construction of a parametrically designed, structural shell for remote communities. It explains how, through the use of various digital software platforms, a single-layer, ... -
Glass Selection for High-Rise Residential Buildings in the United Arab Emirates based on Life Cycle Cost Analysis
(Elsevier, 2014)The architect's decision to select a glass type for a high rise building has significant impact on both the initial and the running cost of a building. This is particularly the case with many of the new buildings that have ... -
Creating Observational 3D Sculptures
(International Symposium on Electronic Art, 2015)Technology has been used to assist in communication and concept development by artists, designers/inventors, engineers, clients, manufacturers and others. [1-3] The use of technology to aid artists capture what they see ... -
An Introduction to the Development of a Product Brand: An Evidence-Based Template for Use with First Year Undergraduate Industrial Designers
(Engineering Design Graphics Division, 2015)The aim of this paper is to provide education practitioners with a template to facilitate the introduction of brand construction to first year undergraduate industrial design students through the visual and physical ... -
The Jazeera Al Hamra Digital Heritage Project: A Model for Digitally Preserving the Heritage of the Arabian Peninsula
(Common Ground Publishing, 2015)The digital environment offers an opportunity to establish a museum model that supports contemporary museum thought in regard to collective memory strategies, inclusivity, and equity of tangible and intangible cultural ... -
Linear Domesticity: The Hong Kong Single Occupancy Strip
(University of Cambridge, Department of Architecture, 2015)The Hong Kong Single Occupancy Strip (HK:SOS) project is a response to a growing housing crisis in Hong Kong, in which the domestic environments of the future are becoming more unaffordable and less habitable. In reaction ... -
VR Panoramic Photography and Hypermedia: Drawing from the Panorama's Past
(International Symposium on Electronic Art, 2015)Since the 1787 patent of the immersive 360-degree painted panorama by Robert Barker, the panorama has been used as a narrative storytelling tool. With VR (virtual reality) panoramic photography in tandem with the notion ... -
Glass Selection for High-Rise Buildings in the United Arab Emirates Considering Orientation and Window-to-Wall Ratio
(Elsevier, 2015)This paper is the continuation of a previous paper published by the authors. Both papers are for a study that considers the relationship among the glass thermal characteristics, its cost, and the price of electricity. This ... -
Comparison of Energy Efficiency Strategies for Mosques in the United Arab Emirates
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)As public buildings that are typically financed by charities, mosques are commonly designed, built, and operated using very limited resources. Hence, failure to design energy efficient mosques either affects occupants' ... -
Effects of immediacy on the perception of interactive art
(Europia Productions, 2016)This study examined how the observed immediacy of an interactive artwork affects the perception of the art, and how participants' engagement impacts the personal perception of time. A new projected artwork was created by ... -
Cultural Heritage and Spectacle: Painted and Digital Panoramic Re-Presentations of Versailles
(University of California, 2016)By comparing and contrasting two panoramic projects of Versailles, one being a painted panorama by John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) completed in 1819 and the other, part of Google's World Wonders Project launched in 2012, this ... -
Points of Identity
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Project Final Report
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Al Ain Civic Center Revitalisation Plan
(2016-05)